Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration

1. Without a Song [A Capella Version]

2. Superstar

3. Rainy Days and Mondays

4. Bless the Beasts and Children

5. This Masquerade

6. Solitaire

7. When I Fall in Love

8. From This Moment On

9. Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again

10. When It's Gone (It's Just Gone)

11. I Believe You

12. Reason to Believe

13. (They Long to Be) Close to You

14. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

15. Little Girl Blue

16. We've Only Just Begun

Editorial Reviews

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This collection features three previously unreleased tracks, but they're beside the point. More importantly what is here are the sickly sweet vocals of Karen Carpenter, the lush '70s style production that's as hip as a wood-paneled station wagon or a wide-lapel polyester leisure suit, and songs that immediately stir up memories of the dentist office's waiting room. It doesn't feature all the hits, but "Rainy Days and Mondays," "Superstar," "We've Only Just Begun," and "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" (a bizarre late-take on psychedelia) are illustrative of Richard and Karen's abilities to make substantial pop-lite. --Rob O'Connor

Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration,The Carpenters,A&M,Pop,Pop Vocals,Popular Music,Soft Rock,United States of America

Average customer rating:

Just for Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again
"Interpretations" has little "New" Material
Intrupretating Interpretations.....
It's Easy To Miss The Point On This One
Happy to be proved wrong

Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration
The Carpenters
Manufacturer: A&M
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005IL8
Release Date: 1995-02-07

Tracks:

Without A Song (A Cappella Version)
Superstar
Rainy Days And Mondays
Bless The Beast And Children
This Masquerade
Solitaire
When I Fall In Love
From This Moment On
Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again
When It's Gone
I Believe You
Reason To Believe
(They Long To Be) Close To You
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft
Little Girl Blue
We've Only Just Begun

Amazon.com

This collection features three previously unreleased tracks, but they're beside the point. More importantly what is here are the sickly sweet vocals of Karen Carpenter, the lush '70s style production that's as hip as a wood-paneled station wagon or a wide-lapel polyester leisure suit, and songs that immediately stir up memories of the dentist office's waiting room. It doesn't feature all the hits, but "Rainy Days and Mondays," "Superstar," "We've Only Just Begun," and "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" (a bizarre late-take on psychedelia) are illustrative of Richard and Karen's abilities to make substantial pop-lite. --Rob O'Connor

Customer Reviews:

Just for Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again .......2007-03-08

If you are a fan of The Carpenters, you simply must hear Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again, and as far as I know this is the least expensive way to get it. I believe it appeared first on this CD but has later been included in significanly more expensive Carpenters CD sets.

Also, if you aren't a huge fan but want many of their best recordings in one place, this is a great place to start.

"Interpretations" has little "New" Material.......2005-08-05

Interpretations, released on the Carpenters 25th anniversary is somewhat of a disappointment to me, as it only has three "new" previously unreleased recordings, these being: "When I Fall In Love", "From This Moment On", and Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again". The rest of the songs on the album are remastered/remixed versions of previous Carpenter hits.

Is it worth the asking price for three additional songs? Each buyer will have to decide that for himself/herself. The fact that these songs were never included on previous albums says something about their quality as perceived by Richard and Karen Carpenter.

As big a fan as I am of the Carpenters, my reluctant advice is to skip this album.

Jim "Konedog" Koenig

Intrupretating Interpretations............2004-11-25

I almost fell over in the store when I ran across this album. Seeing unreleased materal displayed on the front of the package yelled out a sure buy!!! I have loved the Carpenter since the late '80s, when I was introduced to them. Up 'til now, all the songes were played on my stero at lest once. I forked over my money and rushed home to listen to the new tunes. I was amazed to hear Karen turn the page in "Feeling". I thought something was wrong with my CD. I never really heard any improfections in any of the Carpenters materal. I then exchanged it and the next one did the same thing. I then refered to the liner notes to find out that the lead would have to be recorded to omit the page truning. An avid Carpenters fan would hear some differences in the remixes this time around. It is a must to have in your Carpenter's music collection!!!!!

It's Easy To Miss The Point On This One.......2004-02-25

A lot of casual fans feel this album was an erstaz collection of hits, wrong. The point of this album was to pull the covers together. This is the second version, and better mastered, of this release. The first version of "Interpretations" was released with more tracks and longer liner notes in October of 1994 in England and Canada. "Without A Song" is an edited version, the original features Perry Como, John Davidson, and Ella Fitzgerald taking over the leads after the Carpenters overdubbed intro. Oddly enough, Karen and Richard recorded a version for themselves with their singing all the parts. This long version is available on "As Time Goes By."

The treasure here is "Trying To Get The Feeling Again." This is Karen at her rawest. Her vocal lead is allowed to "dry" giving her an edge not associated with her smooth sound. She could "sight read," the turning of the lyric sheet is a strong indicatior of this. Listing to this track almost makes you feel like you're at the recording session or better, listening to a demo as a friend would, the artist later asking fo an opinion or input on the track before it's finished. How intimate is that?

"From This Moment On" is Karen recorded on a mono audio track, Richard would later re-record his concert grand in stereo. This song is from the soundtrack to the 1980 television special "Music, Music, Music." Prior to this version, the song was performed live on "The Tonight Show" and various concerts.

The import version of "Interpretations" contain remixed album tracks and two ballads from "Lovelines." "Sing," "Desperado," and "Please Mr. Postman" are among the remixes, "You're The One," and "Where Do I Go From Here" are the two ballads from "Lovelines." Interesting to note that while this album was a collection of covers, two excellent tracks, "Baby It's You" and "I Just Fall In Love Again" weren't used. A lot of people feel, that despite Richard's comments in the liner notes abount the late discovery of "Trying To Get The Feeling Again," that this album was created to make that song a centerpiece and to "spoon feed" his audience with unreleased recordings. Whatever the reason, the theme of this album is indeed their cover work, which stands to honor the songwriters by their words being given such a beautiful voice.

Happy to be proved wrong.......2002-06-23

I have a distrust of remastering and remixing. So often, something is lost in the process. I hesitated to try Richard Carpenter's remixed tracks for years. But, boy, was I wrong! He has done his task professionally, and has done it with subtlety.

I love this album. It includes so many terrific songs that bring back memories. [We started listening to The Carpenters on our honeymoon ...]

Some interesting tracks:
From This Moment On features an interpolation of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Book 1, Prelude no 2 into Cole Porter!

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft is an excellent version of the Klaatu original. [And some people still think it really is the theme song of World Contact Day!]

The A Cappella version of Without a Song

The songs have been thoughtfully put together to create a great program. Highly recommended.

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